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Song Spotlight: Entrance - Not Gonna Say Your Name

As recent protest songs go, "Not Gonna Say Your Name" is one of the few that has stood out to me as a genuinely great song beyond its political context. It also served as my introduction to Entrance, even though the band/project, often associated with "freak folk" artists like Devendra Banhart and Will Oldham, has been around in many permutations since the early...

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Album Spotlight: CARE - Luv in the Ruins

CARE is the musical project of Justin Majetich, whose sprawling, ambitious compositions are brought to full-blown, technicolor life with the assistance of a cast of instrumental and technical collaborators. Although Majetich is currently based in New York, he originally hails from Grand Rapids, Michigan, which means I can add him to the short list of properly good things to come out of my...

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